Ride Your Wave vs Shortcut to Happiness
Ride Your Wave has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 5.6/10 for Shortcut to Happiness). Ride Your Wave is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 1h 42m. Shortcut to Happiness is the older of the two (2007 against 2019). Both are comedy, drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Ride Your Wave
Shortcut to Happiness| Ride Your Wave | Shortcut to Happiness | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 5.6/10 |
| Year | 2019 | 2007 |
| Length | 1h 34m | 1h 42m |
| Genres | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy |
| Country | Japan | United States of America |
| Director | Masaaki Yuasa | Alec Baldwin |
| Main cast | Rina Kawaei, Haruki Ishiya, Kentaro Ito, Ryota Katayose, Honoka Matsumoto | Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Alec Baldwin, Dan Aykroyd, Amy Poehler |
Synopsis
Ride Your Wave
Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love.
Shortcut to Happiness
In Manhattan, the aspirant writer Jabez Stone is a complete loser: he is not able to sell his novels, he lives in a lousy apartment and he does not have success with women. When one of his friends Julius Jenson sells his novel for US$ 190,000.00 to an editor, Jabez fells envy and promises to sell his soul to the devil for success and accidentally kills a woman with his typing machine. The Devil knocks on his door, fixes the situation and seals…
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